Comment Re:Been a while (Score 1) 391
...and I still find time to assemble my hardware, so there.
...and I still find time to assemble my hardware, so there.
I have to manually adjust indentation because the editor can't figure it out
Try using a Python editor? I don't want to start the next "emacs vs vi" round, but seriously...
...and my editor will correct the formatting. For python, I would also have to manually...
Just like a C editor "corrects the formatting" for C, a Python editor "corrects the formatting" for Python.
You see, my house has a virus again. Technically it’s malware. But there’s no patch yet...
a) Do not let a Windows machine control your hose. US Navy tried that. Bad idea.
b) Going by the past history there won't be a patch from Microsoft. Wait for a third-party A/V software to come out with a fix.
FORTRAN and Lisp (and BASIC and C, only somewhat later) made programmers about as productive, within a reasonably small constant factor, as anything since.
I recently switched from C to Python, and my productivity shot up ~100 times. For example, I created a tree of hashes to perform pattern matching on large data sets in linear time. It took me 2 hours from concept to production run. Also factor in a huge library that does everything needed on this planet, ease of maintaining 100x fewer lines of code and 0 memory management hurdles.
The downside is that it runs 100 times slower than C, but since it is the programmer's productivity your are talking about, you are very wrong.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?